'Judicial murder' and Terri Schiavo [by Nat Hentoff]

The Washington Times ^ | July 11, 2005 | Nat Hentoff

[aculeus]

While editorials across the nation agreed in chorus that at last, Terri Schiavo will rest in peace, the autopsy report declined such certainty:"It is the policy of this office that no case is ever closed and that all determinations are to be reconsidered upon receipt of credible, new information." Even if no new information surfaces, how Terri Schiavo was put to death is causing many Americans to confront their own death.

Pat Anderson, for a long time the attorney for Terri Schiavo's parents, said the day Terri died of dehydration as ordered by the courts and her husband: "Euthanasia in America now has a name and a face." Dr. Jon Thogmartin's autopsy report made clear that Terri Schiavo was not dying, let alone terminal. As Dr. Carl D'Angio wrote in a June 21 letter in the New York Times: "Her family loved what was left of her and asked only to be permitted to care for her at their own expense. My question is, who or what was better served by her passive execution by water deprivation than by the first alternative?"

[okie01]

Hentoff is a liberal's liberal. But he full well understands right-to-life issues.

It's good to have him on our side.

[Elsie]

Oh BOO HOO!


We have over a MILLION abortions a year and we are upset over an ADULT???


Give me a break!

[GOPJ]

Hentoff is a liberal's liberal.

He's too real for that -- more like a person's person. Nah, he transcends labels. I have no idea ... he's Hentoff, and that's good enough.

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[colorado tanker]

Hentoff is one of the few commentators around who thinks things through for himself and doesn't let himself be swayed if some of his allies come out with something different. Knows his jazz too.

[tutstar]

How many starved adults will it take to upset you?

[floriduh voter]

JUSTICE FOR TERRI JULY DAILIES:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1437721/posts

and bttt.

[madprof98]

We have over a MILLION abortions a year and we are upset over an ADULT???

Doesn't sound as if the "we" there includes you.

[floriduh voter]

You don't grasp that this opens the door for many other disabled people to be murdered? That means children and adults. Terri is a symbol for the disabled community. This is often overlooked. The disabled community knows full well this puts them in danger.

Euthanasia and abortion are promoted by the same scum including the ACLU. Or, some people are just Terri haters or Terri supporter haters. Are you one of them?

[floriduh voter]

We better do something aboaut euthanasia and abortion. Let me see... No more judicial tyranny.

[Cicero]

It's an ancient principle that every single life is precious.

Incidentally, Hentoff has never hesitated to speak out against abortion.

[BloomNTn]

I'm upset at both, abortions and the death of Terri equally. Both are examples of our country at its worst.

[floriduh voter]

Nat Hentoff gets it. Florida politicians and judges do not.

[floriduh voter]

VOTE NO ON FLA SENATOR JIM KING in 2006.

[floriduh voter]

Disabled Floridians can be murdered now based upon hearsay evidence as of July 1, 2005.

http://www.theempirejournal.com/070405_Hearsay_law_Florida.html

[BykrBayb]

Are you an adult? If you were starved and dehydrated to death, would anyone be upset? If I may answer that for you; Yes. A lot of people would be upset. A few people would complain about the majority of people not liking it. A handful of people would make jokes about it. There would be the usual comments about poetic justice. Most of us would be upset.

[Tribune7]

Hentoff sums it up perfectly.

[Smartaleck]

"It's good to have him on our side."

A self described atheist and against the death penalty?